" for the depositions in the case.
5. After Nyx's release dascertained that his pardon nas due to a petition prescuted by him to His Excellency The Leutnant Governor, and upon booking at a copy of thus petition dat once perecived that it contamed grows hus- stáläuceut ubosé falsity Fould have shown had au ofportunity been orice me of doing so.
6. In consequence Saddressed a letter to the Colonial Southing
Score on the 5th May, and a Ecky of that letter. I now have the honor to quolors.
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8. In reply to the two foregoing letter Dreceived a despatch from the Colonial Senchary of 25 may later in the afternoon of Nesterday, and a copy of that letter Shave also the honor ti Qualose,
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unable to rest satisfied mich the reasonsalleged by His Excellency forrefusing one the redress casked for. 1° Because His Excellency practically aduits that in acting as he did he relied actogether sepon newspaper reports and stricture, which Isenture respectfully to subunit ought not to be taken as a basis of euch action as the Luntquant Gove has Falken.
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simply ande avowing in a proper and respectful manner to of fame. the rectification of what Phad reason to consider au Error nlrich had done one au ne juction.
3. That his Exelllensy does not seem to me met the pouit of my complanit -
to have fairly
11 that my request is not imprecedented as the Hong Kong Government Gazette of 2 June 1866 mil prove. In that Gazette tion lecture of mefors Whip të and Shinile, when Police magistrates, more publicst, with the avowed object of cathing them right mile the Public and the Honce Authorities-
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10. The injustice to one is the greater because His Excecting by lits action has endorsed and to a great askel Given his sauction to the censures pased so freely upon me by the Prises, while had he investigated the case and made proper Enquiries the reasonable probability is that he would have cruned at a different requet from what he did.
11. Imould refer Your Lordelup especially to the statement, made in the Prisoners portation that he won the Khaton'a tour at Lucknow. A reference to me or to an official list of the bearers of that decoration mould have alition that statement to be untrue, and ancesertion of e barefaced a nature ought to have eufficed to charac. terize the white frtation
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12. The pectfully, subunit to Your Lordship that the action of Mio Excellency could lead, and in fact
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